The X Factor winner Joe McElderry is losing out to Rage Against The Machine in the race for the UK Christmas Number One single.

Early midweek indications today (December 15) are that McElderry‘s single ‘The Climb’ (a cover of a Miley Cyrus song) has sold less than the US band, whose 1992 song ‘Killing In The Name’ is in contention for the top spot following a Facebook campaign to get them to the top spot.

However the physical format of McElderry‘s single is not released until tomorrow and this is expected to give the song a huge boost in the chart.